ROME is my favorite T.V series of all time, but it was good it ended when it did. Both because the Ascension of Augustus is the perfect endpoint for a story about the end of the Roman Republic, and also because of their plans for future seasons (Remember the whole Jewish subplot that went nowhere?). Which involved going to Judea and covering the life of Christ, which would have been terrible.

10 months ago

haveahappyday

HE

10 months ago

cum2soon

the jewish subplot was supposed to be the gateway to the wider judean subplot but the series was cancelled (due to the set burning down and costing too much to replace) before they got a chance

10 months ago

w8t4u

on the other hand the second season would have been a lot better had it been season 2, 3 and 42 was supposed to end with Brutus' death

10 months ago

kizzmybutt

brutus did literally nothing wrong

only tyrants need fear tyrant killers

10 months ago

Emberburn

other than being a loan shark who was in it to stop Caesar from giving the plebs to much power rather than out of any noble consideration

By the time of the Caesars the Senate deserved everything they got, heck the fact that they were allowed to pretend to exist was extreme leniency

10 months ago

VisualMaster

Well Yea. I was using that to show how they were setting up the Judean plot for future seasons, but it goes nowhere because there were no future seasons. And It good to because covering the creation of a modern religion like Christianity in the show would have either been groan inducing edgy Fedora-Atheism or groan inducing Hippie "All faith is beautiful" Hollywood Spirituality.

10 months ago

whereismyname

who knows, the idea of observing the origins of christianity from the pov of the local and imperial authorities rather than that of the apostles is an intriguing concept and covering christianity in a series called "Rome" isn't all that out of place given just how important it would become to the later empire.

10 months ago

girlDog

Pullo was originally supposed to be the soldier who speared jesus on the cross, kek. He'd have been in his 90s. would still love to have seen that though

i am less cynical and think jesus would have been portrayed as a literal nobody who was in it for one scene, the real focus would probably have been on pilate, herod, the zealots and sicarri, caiaphas and the sanhedrin, etc. i think it would have been great

10 months ago

Ignoramus

this

10 months ago

TechHater

GAIVSarm flailIVLIVSwaving gesturesCAESAR

10 months ago

FastChef

Brutus slew Caesar because he was ambitious

10 months ago

Snarelure

heAmbiguity.

10 months ago

Poker_Star

Caesar was ambitious

10 months ago

Burnblaze

How the fuck could Herod pay TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS OF GOLD???Was Judea that rich in those times?

10 months ago

DeathDog

Taxing the fuck out of everyone and everything.

10 months ago

StrangeWizard

Still, that's like 10 tons of gold. Jesus. Or was pound a different measure back then?

10 months ago

Fuzzy_Logic

(((They))) were always rich

10 months ago

Snarelure

Keep in mind that gold is really dense/heavy. That's about 1000 or so gold bars in total.

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